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"In Old-Fashioned on Purpose, Winger shows how simplifying our lives and adopting retro skills such as gardening and handiwork can be the key to creating the happy and healthy life we're yearning for. Inside these pages, readers will learn how to find joy in the kitchen, proven strategies for growing your own groceries, how to craft a more grounded routine, and clever tips and creative DIYs to help you embark on your old-fashioned journey. This inspiring...
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For a growing number of people, simplicity has been a path to experience the joy in life, to cherish its richness and vitality.
It strips away the burdens of our daily lives so that we are left with exhilaration, spirit and fullness. These people are finding that less work, less rushing, less debt is more time with family and friends, more time with community, more time with nature, and more time to develop a meaningful and compelling spirituality....
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"It's never about the stuff. In fact, our attachment to things has nothing to do with the actual items. After years of struggling to remove the clutter in her life, Brita Long changed her relationship with “things” through self-examination, introspection, and hard work. As a life coach and attorney, Brita has helped clients with the same struggle, and now she's sharing her insight in Tidy Up or Simplify." --Amazon.
6) Old-time country wisdom & lore for hearth and home: 1,000s of traditional skills for simple living
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"Achieve your goal of a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle, no matter where you live, with instruction on a range of basic home skills inspired by old time country living. As big box stores and foreign-made, disposable goods take over commerce, the drive to get back to the origins of what we consume and how we sustain ourselves is becoming ever more compelling. Whether you are a country dweller or an urbanite, or somewhere in between, you can...
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Once, Tammy Strobel and her husband were living a normal middle-class lifestyle: driving two cars, commuting long distances, and living well beyond their means. Now they are living the voluntary downsizing - or smart-sizing - dream. In this book Strobel combines research on well-being with numerous real-world examples to offer practical inspiration. Her fresh take on our things, our work, and our relationships spells out micro-actions that anyone...
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In his follow-up to 50 Things Your Life Doesn't Need, Sam Davidson offers timely tips to help you simplify your life to discover what's truly important. Using tips from experts, the latest research, and ideas from people around the world, Davidson shows how anyone can live a simpler life one that's stress-free and brings happiness.
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"Society constantly tells us to follow our dreams and live our best lives. But contrary to what we've been told, the good life we crave is not accomplished through limitless possibilities or even hustle and hurry-it can only be found in the confines of God's loving limits. Inviting us to discover a better way, Ashley Hales shows us a spacious life filled with purpose, joy, and rest"--
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It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous! Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically....
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Combining spiritual encouragement and practical application, "I Used to Be So Organized" presents a balanced approach to finding order and peace for today's overwhelmed woman. "I Used to Be So Organized" addresses the frustrations many women feel when they can't get a handle on their lives. They know, deep in their hearts, they should be able to manage things. After all, they used to be organized... Ten or twenty years ago. But now, life seems to...
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Esther Emery gives an honest, piercingly poetic account of a year without Internet - 365 days away from the good, the bad, and the ugly of our digital lives - in one woman's desperate attempt at a reset. Emery faces her addiction to electronica, her illusion of self-importance, and her longing to return to simpler days, but then the unexpected happens. Her experiment in analog is hijacked by a spiritual awakening, and she finds herself suddenly, inexplicably...
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The Art of Positive Thinking All Year Round
An abundant sourcebook of ideas, encouraging quotes, recipes, and activities, Simple Pleasures shows you how to appreciate the simple things that make up your daily life.
Learn new secrets to happiness. Rediscover the pleasures our grandparents knew when life was quieter and slower. A time when pleasures were made, not bought, and enjoyed all the more because of it. Organized seasonally and full of touching...
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So many women are living overcommitted lives and buckling under the nagging guilt. When they are busy, they feel guilty for not playing with their kids or having a quiet time of prayer and Bible study. When they try to rest, they feel guilty because there's so much left to do. It's an endless cycle of overwork and exhaustion. Yet inside every woman's heart is a longing for true rest. It's there because God designed us that way--but it seems out of...
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If you crave simplicity, yearn for peace and calm, this book is for you. Through biblical teaching and practical insights, author Chip Ingram goes beyond so-called quick fixes and speaks to men and women who know what they need to do, want desperately to do it, but find it next to impossible to break free of the too many good and important things that flood their lives.
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"Many women are worn out juggling their daily responsibilities. They think finding "balance" is the goal. But what if life balance wasn't God's ideal for us? With passion and wisdom, Myers and Phoebus challenge the modern-day thinking about "boss babe" mentality, helping working women place all dreams, goals, and side hustles under the authority of Jesus"--
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After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married.
But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his...
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Happiness has become a default goal for many people. Yet that goal seems to always elude those chasing it. Building a thriving life is recognizing that happiness is not a goal, but a side-effect. Thriving is about building a life of meaning and purpose, practicing forgiveness and gratitude, and creating a resilient self to deal with issues and struggles that arise throughout life. Thrive Principles is a roadmap for anyone looking to build a thriving...
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